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Frugal Five: #42

 The Frugal Five: #42


With inflation on the rise and our salaries not being able to keep up, it seems like we have taken a pay cut and must be more careful with our money.   The Frugal Five is a series where we celebrate our daily or weekly activities that help us live a frugal life.    


With the New Year upon us, it is time to set goals for how we will be spending our money.    This can look like shopping carefully, DIY projects, wasting less or just doing without.     Let’s see how we can save our pennies this year.   


1- Embrace Leftovers

Embrace Leftovers for Dinner or Lunch.   You have already purchased the food and put the effort into making it once, so give yourself a break (financial and work wise) and have leftovers at least 1 time a week.   This past week, we scheduled leftovers twice.   My husband was out of town and it was just me and the boy, so we heated up leftovers on 2 of our busy nights.    This was a win win in my book.   Do you eat leftovers? 


2- CVS and Michael’s Savings

CVS had a few good sales this week, and I was able to couple the sales with my ECB from a previous week, so my out of pocket expense was pennies.     In addition, Michael’s gave me a $5.00 reward coupon this week.   


CVS

  • 2-Love and Beauty Shampoo and Conditioner- Sale, Coupon, ECB

  • 2-Colgate Toothpaste- Sale, Coupon, ECB


Michael’s 

  • Holly garland- 90% discount and $5.00 reward coupon 


3- Decorating On A Budget


I took some time this week to decorate my home for spring.    No added decorations this year.    I used my traditional spring decorations, house plants,  candles,  and pulled from my extensive glassware to make special presentation areas.   


4- Discount Plants

Around Valentine's Day, the price of cut flowers was around $50.00→ Yes $50.00, so we decided to look for other options.  When we went to our local Lowes store for needed supplies, we looked at their discount house plants.      For just a few dollars, we were able to select a couple plants to add to our home.    With a little bit of love, repotting and care, the plants all came back to life and started growing again.   In addition, we were able to get a few cuttings from our company's work plants and are rooting them.  I am so much happier knowing that these plants are going to be with us for a long time and as a bonus we spend significantly less than $50.00.    


5-  Take Advantage of Free Meals


Last week, my job offered either free lunch or dinner twice this week.   In addition, there was leftovers for lunch the next day.    I took advantage of this nice surprise and enjoyed pizza and burrito bowls.   Furthermore, my son’s swim team had a pizza party one night and we were able to get dinner one more night this week.     

 

Do you want to see what we did last week?   

Just click on the picture for the link. 


Please leave a comment below with your ways of saving money this week.


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